At the end of season one, Anna Torv and Sam Reid’s characters were at a crossroads, so where will they go next?
It’s 1987 and the power couple at the centre of the ABC dramaCredit:Helen, played by Anna Torv, and Dale, played by Sam Reid, are now the established co-anchors, even though the network’s CEO refers to them as “the silver couple of news”. But as their Melbourne newsroom boss Lindsay reminds them, “sometimes you’re the bronze couple and sometimes you’re dangerously close to polished turd territory.
, which managed to effortlessly rocket through the big news events of 1986 – Challenger disaster, Halley’s Comet, the Lindy Chamberlain case and the Chernobyl disaster among others – while juggling two ambitious and difficult characters without ever feeling weighed down. It was funny and serious, with a supporting cast whose stories never felt superfluous.
Season two of the six-part series picks up a year later, in July 1987, on the eve of the Hawke vs Howard federal election. The bicentenary is looming, Charles and Diana are on their way, while the Hoddle Street massacre and the stockmarket crash are coming. Torv is magnetic as the brittle and forthright Helen, whose brashness conceals a soft heart and fragile mental state. When Dale confesses he has feelings for men, Helen’s immediate reaction is to tell him she loves him “just the way you are”.“There’s a non-judgmental space between them,” says Torv. “And I think that it’s pretty rare to find somebody you have that connection or that feeling with. And that’s what she feels in him, that there’s an allowance to be herself.
“At the end of season one, when Dale did that whole big speech, I think a lot of people heard the first bit [of the speech] and in some ways saw it as a coming out,” says Lucas. “And that maybe, season two was going to be Dale just living a queer life. But the reality is that he said he had both instincts in him and then, how OK can Helen be with that.”, the old-fashioned Hollywood term for a marriage of convenience that masked the sexuality of one or both partners.
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